Pasto, a town in the south-west of Colombia, in a fertile valley 8350 feet above sea-level. Above it rises the volcano of Pasto (14,000 feet above the sea); and in 1827 the town was destroyed by an earthquake. It manufactures cloth. Pop. 10,000.
Pasto
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 7: Maltebrun to Pearson, p. 796
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